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The Violin Thief

• mchahn 11y ago
  And he never got a penny for the theft, just a lifetime of enjoying the violin. I'm not excusing him, just commenting.
  • fleitz 11y ago
    But he is now as immortal as the instrument adding himself to its provenance.
  • kzrdude 11y ago
    He stole another's lifetime of enjoying it. It was a great story to read anyway.
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• yes_or_gnome 11y ago
  The daughter of the violin's owner is NPR host Nina Totenberg. She wrote about the recovery between the time of its discovery and before its sale. http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-stolen-stradivarius-recovered-after-35-years http://www.npr.org/2015/08/06/427718240/a-rarity-reclaimed-s...
• keithpeter 11y ago
  The Beyond Beethoven recording sounds interesting, and, of course, not easily available. Anyone listened to it? Shame when someone with ideas is just a little too far out of the mainstream of behaviour to get the social network to launch the ideas. Quote from OA "Tran kept urging her husband to build a career giving music lessons. Their living room in Venice was perfect for that." Teaching and improvising could have been a way forward with software and Web distribution. Such a shame. PS the Mobius trio that you will find on youtube are actually three guitarists. There stuff sounds interesting as well, so I'm ahead.
• gaur 11y ago
  Concise version, presented chronologically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Stradivarius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Stradivarius